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re: Why was Covid such a big deal?
Posted on 9/9/20 at 6:52 am to CharlesLSU
Posted on 9/9/20 at 6:52 am to CharlesLSU
Because with social media now, humans are aware of their own mortality more than ever now
When you say 180k deaths with an average age around 80, that is statistically nothing for us as society. In all times before social media, society wouldn’t have even noticed nor cared about this in any material way
But through this, we have got bombarded with personal stories from people across the social media sphere. Look at our own CharlesLsu, he has bombarded us with personal stories to try and sway as many opinions on this virus as he could. He gets angry at those that disagree because of his personal invlovlement. And that’s ok
Always, people personally effected by a virus feels it is a big deal, but that never swayed the opinion of society as a whole. But now, with social media where personal emotions can be shared so easily, those personal emotions have been able to sway societal opinion
When you say 180k deaths with an average age around 80, that is statistically nothing for us as society. In all times before social media, society wouldn’t have even noticed nor cared about this in any material way
But through this, we have got bombarded with personal stories from people across the social media sphere. Look at our own CharlesLsu, he has bombarded us with personal stories to try and sway as many opinions on this virus as he could. He gets angry at those that disagree because of his personal invlovlement. And that’s ok
Always, people personally effected by a virus feels it is a big deal, but that never swayed the opinion of society as a whole. But now, with social media where personal emotions can be shared so easily, those personal emotions have been able to sway societal opinion
This post was edited on 9/9/20 at 6:53 am
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Posted on 9/9/20 at 7:16 am to lsupride87
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But now, with social media where personal emotions can be shared so easily, those personal emotions have been able to sway societal opinion
Nah, they don’t move the needle. Like at all.
It’s not like you’re going to put in extra social distancing because some message board guy has a story about it. It, of course, is terrible that people have died but when you look at the aggregate numbers only to find out they were fake AF, then you reassess.
Look how packed grocery stores and restaurants and malls are for an indicator at how much people buy into that BS
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